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Indian Farmers Are Not Pirates -Monsanto Is A Polluter
Pallab Ghosh’s claim that the farmers of Gujarat are producing pirated seed by cross-fertilizing of Monsanto’s Bollgard plant with local cotton is ... a nearby stall". The seed is made from cross-fertilising the Bollgard plant with local cotton varieties more suited to the unique Gujarat climate - or so it is claimed. Old ways, new ...
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Another Victory Against The GE Goliath
The Bt cotton varieties gave very low yields. Even the staple lengths of whatever little cotton was produced were so short that the cotton fetched a very low price in ... acre with Bt cotton, actually lost more than this amount by planting Bt varieties. Not only is the cost of the seed higher than of non-Bt varieties, Monsanto’s varieties need more fertilizers ...
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Return to Organic Cotton & Avoid the Bt-Cotton Trap
How AP became the ‘Pesticide Capital of the World’ Many of the cotton varieties once grown with a diversity of food crops were swept aside and lost during the 1970s and 80s when the high yielding varieties ... cotton is 690 percent higher than in NPM farming systems and that seed cost of Bt cotton is 355 percent higher than conventional varieties (‘Organic cotton beats Bt Cotton ...
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Organic Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India
NPM cotton varieties. While wilt causes a decrease in cotton yield, the traditional cotton varieties have far greater genetic diversity than the Bt cotton ...
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International News on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - 1999/05/01
Roundup Ready'' corn that withstands Monsanto's Roundup, a popular herbicide worldwide. New varieties with stacked traits -- such as BT plus high corn oil yield -- are also being marketed ... developed in Canada, is also marketed in the United States and Canada. Cotton -- Bt, Roundup Ready and other GM cotton varieties are expected to account for more than half of the 14 million ...
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Genetically Modified Foods: Harmful or Helpful?
States Department of Agriculture (USDA), there are over 40 plant varieties that have completed all of the federal requirements for commercialization ... 7% in 1996. In 2000, genetically-modified cotton varieties accounted for 61% of the total cotton crop, up from 42% in 1998, and 15 ... Yet consumer advocates are worried that patenting these new plant varieties will raise the price of seeds so high that ...
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Background Info- Clothes for a Change
Health Pesticides and the environment Genetically Engineered Cotton Bt Cotton Herbicide Tolerant Cotton Cotton is Food Sustainable & Organic Cotton Production Organic Cotton Farmers Sweatshops & Clothing Production JOIN THE ACTION ... production of a single cotton T-shirt. The growth of Industrial agriculture and consolidation in the seed industry has replaced hundreds of cotton varieties with only a ...
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Clothes for a Change- Article Archive
International Consumers Condemn Dumping of Cotton & Other Subsidized Ag Crops 6/30 - India Develops Non-GE Pest-Resistant Cotton Varieties 6/11 -India Bt Cotton Failures But Monsanto PR Propaganda ... Cotton Subsidies and Cotton Production 2/15 - Bt Cotton Benefits Short-Lived in India 2/3 - Ending U.S. Cotton Subsidies, Not GE Cotton, Key to Reducing Poverty of African Farmers 1/15 - U.S. Cotton ...
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Say No To GMOs! - April 2008a
P.L., 2006). An article in Nature Biotechnology notes that the poor performance of Bt cotton varieties used in India (which were developed for the short U.S. growing season) is linked ... India\u2019s longer growing season, and because Bt cotton insecticide is not expressed in 25% of the cotton bolls of India\u2019s preferred hybrid cotton varieties (Jayaraman, K.S., 2005) During the Government's ...
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Bt cotton
American cotton. The American cotton was subsequently crossed with Indian cotton to introduce the gene into native varieties. The Bt cotton variety contains a foreign gene obtained from bacillus thuringiensis. This bacterial gene, introduced genetically into the cotton ...
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